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Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Teachers of Humility 

It would not matter whose door I knocked on — that of a hostage or of surviving relatives of a murdered hostage — each one teaches humility

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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? 

Set aside the trees, the details; set aside Israel, Mamdani says

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

My Silent Screen    

I am asked: When do you have time to write books and seforim? I answer: When you are saving time on your smartphone

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Almost Too Late      

“I know,” these children will be able to testify. “I saw a real survivor, I saw the numbers. I know”

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Settler 

“Settler” is becoming the new “Shylock”

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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Said to Be         

When it comes to Jews and Israel these days, there is a creeping dehumanization

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Ten Drops of Wine    

Was I violating the meaning of the injunction to dip my finger in the second cup of wine ten times at the Seder?

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

As If There Were Closure 

The Nazis tried to hide their crimes. Hamas terrorists glory in their crimes

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Sunday, January 05, 2025

My Homeless Friends

I want to humanize myself and, in an admittedly brief way, I want to humanize them

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Hidden Chambers   

Avraham looked and did not turn into a pillar of salt. She should not have looked. He did look. And he survived

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

My Job

Our “job” remains the same: the same intensified focus, the same intensified teshuvah, the same intensified prayer